Of the six large countries in EU 28, Germany has the largest emissions of carbon dioxide. France is on top amiong the six largest countries, when it comes to (the total amount of) the other five greenhouse gases

The ”decoupling” between energy and GDP is a relatively modern phenomenon, and the preceding period with ”coupling” was not very long either. Before “coupling” we had a period we could call
”pre-coupling”, with energy intensity at levels seve-ral times what we have today

Sweden is the country in the EU with the lowest level of greenhouse gas emissions related to the GDP, and this has been the case all the way from 1990-(2012).This goes for the CO2 emissions, the (combined) “non-CO2” emissions and the total greenhouse gas emissions

The electricity sector has contributed to the transformation of the energy system in the EU, and the carbon dioxide emissions from the electricity generation have been reduced significantly. All of this reduction has happened in Eastern Europe, the emission reduction in Western European electricity generation is small - (but Sweden,in contrast, has had low emissions during the whole period of
1990–2012)